1. Ditto for Cretins...and Troglodytes.

2. They actually suck the intelligence from anyone who gets near them.

And, due to some undiscovered principle of physics, they can do this without weakening the intellectual vacuum in their own crania.

I knew a guy who was going to do a PhD thesis investigating the phenomenon, but his advisers wouldn't let him, explaining that it was too dangerous for him to go near that many Republicans--they feared he would come out of the study lacking the brain power to finish his thesis.